Re: [PATCH 1/7] doc-rst: generic way to build only sphinx sub-folders

[Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>]

Em Thu, 18 Aug 2016 16:35:14 -0600
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> escreveu:

> On Sat, 13 Aug 2016 16:12:42 +0200
> Markus Heiser <markus.heiser@darmarit.de> wrote:
> 
> > Add a generic way to build only a reST sub-folder with or
> > without a individual *build-theme*.
> > 
> > * control *sub-folders* by environment SPHINXDIRS
> > * control *build-theme* by environment SPHINX_CONF
> > 
> > Folders with a conf.py file, matching $(srctree)/Documentation/*/conf.py
> > can be build and distributed *stand-alone*. E.g. to compile only the
> > html of 'media' and 'gpu' folder use::
> > 
> >   make SPHINXDIRS="media gpu" htmldocs
> > 
> > To use an additional sphinx-build configuration (*build-theme*) set the
> > name of the configuration file to SPHINX_CONF. E.g. to compile only the
> > html of 'media' with the *nit-picking* build use::
> > 
> >   make SPHINXDIRS=media SPHINX_CONF=conf_nitpick.py htmldocs
> > 
> > With this, the Documentation/conf.py is read first and updated with the
> > configuration values from the Documentation/media/conf_nitpick.py.  
> 
> So this patch appears to have had the undocumented effect of moving HTML
> output from Documentation/output/html to Documentation/output.  I am
> assuming that was not the intended result?
> 
> I'm not sure that we actually need the format-specific subfolders, but we
> should be consistent across all the formats and in the documentation and,
> as of this patch, we're not.

Agreed. it should either use subfolders or not.

IMHO, the best would be to just output everything at 
Documentation/output, if this is possible. That "fixes" the issue
of generating PDF files at the latex dir, with sounds weird, IMHO.

I guess I mention on a previous e-mail, but SPHINXDIRS= is not working
for PDF files generation.

Thanks,
Mauro